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Author Author: cstanton
Date Created: 21 Feb 2020 4:01 PM Date Created
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What puts you off about IoT Services?

There's AWS, Google, adafruit.io - what makes you roll your own or not use these services, or do you use these services? Add a comment below.

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stevesmythe over 4 years ago +8

It's uncertainty over the cost rather than the cost itself. When using these services, I always delete the resource used as soon as I have finished testing as the cost seems to mount up inexorably. It…
14rhb over 4 years ago +5

Hi Christopher, Probably some of 1 and 2 from your list, I would worry I would likely forget I had subscribed and run up a large bill. However for me it would more likely be security related. Not because…
dougw over 4 years ago +5

It is the age old tug-of-war between big business that would like to centralize everything and maintain control of a continuous revenue stream; and the individual who wants to have local control and no…

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ntewinkel over 4 years ago

Arduino IoT too: https://create.arduino.cc/iot

I don't like how you have to pay once for the hardware, and then ongoing to actually use it: https://store.arduino.cc/digital/create#plans
It looks like you get 1 "thing" included.
The nice thing about the plan is that it appears to add support for ESP8266 boards.

As a hobby maker, I don't feel it's worth the ongoing payments for once-in-a-while use.
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ntewinkel over 4 years ago

Arduino IoT too: https://create.arduino.cc/iot

I don't like how you have to pay once for the hardware, and then ongoing to actually use it: https://store.arduino.cc/digital/create#plans
It looks like you get 1 "thing" included.
The nice thing about the plan is that it appears to add support for ESP8266 boards.

As a hobby maker, I don't feel it's worth the ongoing payments for once-in-a-while use.
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ntewinkel over 4 years ago in reply to ntewinkel

To be fair, I should add that these services do make a lot of sense for startups needing to get off the ground quickly. These services also provide the crazy kind of scalability that could be hard to pull off with a small team.

I tend to roll my own because a) I already have web hosting for other reasons, so this piggy backs onto it for free, and b) I've been building things like this for many many years so a php script is super easy to throw together.

For those new to this, and without the web space available - I would still recommend learning to build it yourself, and maybe setting up a local server to host it. This can be easy on a Raspberry Pi, or you can install something on your regular computer.

Cheers,
-Nico
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